The Bermuda Triangle has puzzled people for years with tales of disappearing ships and planes, but scientists think they’ve cracked the case! It turns out the culprit might not be mysterious forces, but freak weather patterns like massive rogue waves and sudden storms. These waves can reach up to 100 feet tall, powerful enough to sink even the toughest ships. Add to that unpredictable changes in ocean currents and magnetic anomalies that mess with navigation systems, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster. While it’s fun to imagine aliens or sea monsters, science shows it’s all about nature’s chaos. So, the Bermuda Triangle might not be magic—but it’s still one wild and dangerous place! 🌊✈️ Animation is created by Bright Side. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/ Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en Telegram: https://t.me/bright_side_official Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This video is made for entertainment purposes. We do not make any warranties about the completeness, safety and reliability. Any action you take upon the information in this video is strictly at your own risk, and we will not be liable for any damages or losses. It is the viewer's responsibility to use judgement, care and precaution if you plan to replicate.
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00:00You probably saw a viral video where YouTubers hid a huge treasure in the Bermuda Triangle
00:06and a random guy dared to go after it.
00:09He scored $10,000, but let's be real, his biggest win was getting out of there alive.
00:15This dangerous stretch of water between Florida, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda is notorious for
00:21its chilling and unexplained events.
00:23They say that more than 50 ships and 20 airplanes have mysteriously disappeared in the Bermuda
00:29Triangle.
00:31This leads to many theories, suggesting that this area is somehow linked to mystical powers
00:36or vortices that pull objects into other dimensions.
00:40But an Australian scientist named Carl Krushelnicki might have actually cracked the code on the
00:45Bermuda Triangle mystery.
00:47According to him, most popular legends and eerie disappearances can be explained by two
00:52main factors.
00:56The first factor is human error.
00:58One theory debunked by Krushelnicki was about the doomed Flight 19.
01:03Back in 1945, a group of five planes from the U.S. Navy took off on a routine training
01:08mission from Florida.
01:10Everything was going well until, 90 minutes into the flight, the troop commander reported
01:15that they were lost, and then poof, they just disappeared.
01:21One of the largest air and sea searches in history was conducted to find them.
01:26To this day, no one has found any trace of Flight 19 or the 14 men on board.
01:34What still makes people scratch their heads about this event is that the weather conditions
01:38when they took off were actually great.
01:41A relatively warm day, fluffy white clouds drifting across the sky, and a breezy wind
01:46coming from the southwest.
01:48Pretty standard for training flights, really, nothing out of the ordinary.
01:52So what happened?
01:56Turns out that despite the flight leader having over 2,000 flying hours, he was a bad pilot.
02:03Actually a really bad pilot.
02:05According to Krushelnicki, the commander was such a poor navigator that he had gotten lost
02:09at sea on at least two previous occasions before the Flight 19 incident.
02:14On that doomed day, he even tried to get someone to cover his shift but was unsuccessful, to
02:20the misfortune of his entire team.
02:23After their training flight exercise was completed successfully, both compasses on board stopped
02:28working.
02:29On the patrol's radio, his anxious voice said they were over land, or precisely, he
02:34was sure they were flying above the Florida Keys.
02:37But that didn't make any sense.
02:40He had made his scheduled pass over hens and chicken shoals in the Bahamas less than an
02:45hour earlier, but now he believed his plane had somehow drifted hundreds of miles off
02:50course and ended up in the Florida Keys.
02:53He couldn't have been more wrong.
02:57According to the most plausible theories about this case, what he thought was the Florida
03:01Keys was actually some small islands in the Bahamas.
03:05And here's where the real mess happened.
03:08Instead of turning back to the west, toward Florida, he kept flying east, deeper into
03:12the Atlantic Ocean.
03:14His plane eventually ran out of fuel, and you already know the rest of the story.
03:21Some theorists might argue that a malevolent force somehow interfered with the two compasses,
03:27causing them to fail while they were flying this supposedly cursed stretch of water.
03:32But let's face it, even if that were true, human error was the main factor here.
03:37The pilot shouldn't have mistaken the Bahamas islands for the Keys.
03:41End of that story.
03:45Now let's talk about the second factor that, according to Krushalinsky, explains many of
03:49the strange disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle.
03:52And that's related to bad weather.
03:56A lot of Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes actually pass right through the Bermuda Triangle.
04:02So before we had advanced weather forecasting, these storms had caused a bunch of ships to
04:06go missing back in the day.
04:08On top of that, the Gulf Stream runs through the area too.
04:12That's a super strong ocean current that can make the weather change quickly and, sometimes,
04:17pretty dramatically.
04:18So when you think about it, natural factors like these could explain many, if not most,
04:23of the disappearances.
04:26Take the USS Cyclops, for example.
04:28Back in 1918, this massive 500-foot cargo ship carrying about 11,000 tons of manganese
04:36just disappeared without a trace.
04:38It was sailing from the West Indies to Baltimore, with 309 people on board.
04:44What makes this event extra eerie is that not a single distress signal was sent.
04:49Over a hundred years later, we still have no idea what happened to it.
04:53No wreckage has ever been found.
04:56Of course, people have come up with all kinds of theories about the USS Cyclops.
05:01One popular idea is that it ran into a sudden violent storm.
05:05With all that heavy manganese on board, it might've capsized and sunk really fast.
05:10Others speculate about underwater events, like landslides, or even a rogue wave.
05:19This is not such a crazy theory if you think about it.
05:22According to Krushelnicki, the Bermuda Triangle isn't just a bad weather zone, it is about
05:27the raw power of the ocean itself.
05:30The ocean floor there is way deeper than most people realize, going down nearly 30,000
05:35feet.
05:36That's basically like Mount Everest in reverse.
05:40When the ocean water gets that deep, it tends to hide things, making it the perfect place
05:45for ships and planes to just disappear without a trace.
05:49The expert confirms that there is also a tiny chance that even stranger events could be
05:54happening beneath the waves of the Bermuda Triangle.
05:58That is related to methane clathrate.
06:01This is a fancy name for an ice-like compound that forms underwater or in really cold places
06:06with methane gas trapped inside.
06:09Sometimes these structures can break free, creating bubbles on the surface.
06:13And this bubble shower can be fatal, at least for ships.
06:18Some experiments done with model ships showed that if enough bubbles rise up, the water's
06:23density drops, and this can mess with the ship's ability to float.
06:28If a large number of bubbles come up and cover a large area quickly, the ship could lose
06:32enough buoyancy to sink or tip over.
06:35But to be fair, the chances of something like that happening are very remote.
06:41So human error and bad weather – those are the two factors that likely explain all the
06:46mysteries surrounding this so-called malevolent stretch of water.
06:50But the truth is, the Bermuda Triangle isn't all that special.
06:55Although this region is very popular, there are no official maps that clearly outline
07:00its exact boundaries and say, look, here precisely is the Bermuda Triangle.
07:06And that is part of the problem.
07:08Disappearances and unexplained events that happen far from the actual region end up being
07:13lumped into the Bermuda Triangle's list of unexplained mysteries.
07:17Like the Mary Celeste's fate.
07:19In 1872, this ship was found completely intact, but with no sign of the captain, his family,
07:25or the crew.
07:27People thought, okay, creepy fact, ghost ship, so it must be related to the Bermuda Triangle.
07:33But one thing doesn't add up.
07:35The Mary Celeste was abandoned about 400 miles east of the Azores, so we're talking about
07:41a completely different part of the Atlantic.
07:43By this time, the Triangle has morphed into a trapezoid to cover that huge chunk of the
07:49North Atlantic.
07:51What I'm trying to say here is that once people start believing in a danger zone, confirmation
07:56bias takes over.
07:57But the facts are that the Bermuda Triangle sees tons of daily traffic every single day,
08:03both by sea and air.
08:05And according to experts, the number of incidents that happen there is pretty much the same
08:09as anywhere else in the world, percentage-wise.
08:13Some years the number is a bit higher, some years lower, but it averages out the same.
08:18With that in mind, it seems like it's time for us to finally move on from wild theories
08:23involving the Bermuda Triangle.
08:25Well, at least until the next bizarre disappearance comes along.
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